Nancy Boyd

About the Artist:

Prior to teaching drawing and painting at Capilano University for 23 years, Nancy worked as a designer and architectural renderer in Vancouver, most notably for Expo 86. Nancy is still affected by those influences and maintains a fascination with viewpoints and the conflation of scale between the microscopic to the cosmic. Much of her work reflects her enjoyment of the intersection of science and aesthetics, or of the rational and the deeply felt. She takes great pleasure in being a witness to things in the world that create a sense of wonder in us.

Nancy has shown extensively around Greater Vancouver for over 30 years in both private and public galleries, including the public galleries of Richmond, Surrey, Burnaby, and Coquitlam. In addition, her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Japan, and Australia.

Statement:

I think it is important to remind ourselves to be in awe of the world, to continue to 'see' freshly. I enjoy looking for beauty in less conventional places. And although my first love is drawing, the accidents of process inherent in using varied media can also create that fresh and exciting way of seeing as I move through a piece.

I'm looking for the universal by witnessing and recording the particular, often in highly re-ordered or abstracted ways. The evidence of my own searching and curiosity may take me to the interior of the body, to the atmosphere of space or to the cell under a microscope. I often think my curiosity is similar to a scientist's though I have completely different methods. Instead of looking for 'proofs' in my work, I want only to witness, to take pleasure in creating and to be curious about what I see and what it might mean.